Yes, Starting/stopping Deploying to an instance (whatever that means) The most important thing I was thinking of is testing. That means testing a web application with apache httpd and selenium. Testing a web app that requires mod_rewrite won't work at the moment because tomcat and jetty are not aware of .htaccess and mod_rewrite and therefor the requests will not be redirected to the correct php/perl/cgi scripts. Having a web.xml with servlet mappings that are similar to the .htaccess rewrite rules for only supporting maven tests sounds not good for me.
Am I wrong? Maybe there is another solution I do not see at the moment.